When I was in college, I lived with a roommate in an
apartment across the street from the university. It was a modern apartment
building, but it still seemed to have a spirit attached to it.
During the winter, my roommate and I would sit in the living
room watching TV after class. From time to time, we'd hear vague moaning noises
that seemed to come from the attic of the building.
There wasn't attic access from any of the units and we'd look at one another &
ask, "Is that you?" Knowing full well, we couldn't make a sound like
that.
After a few weeks, the sounds started getting closer to us. It would sound as
if it were coming down the stairs to join us in the living room. The sound was
very directional and we'd both stare into the same general area to see anything
that could be making the sound.
One afternoon when I was alone in the apartment, I glimpsed a guy standing at
my bedroom door staring in at me. He was pale, looked to be about 19, wearing a
plaid shirt and faded jeans.
Not expecting anyone to be standing at my door, I looked away for a moment then
looked back toward the door. He was gone.
A week or so later, my roommate asked if I had ever seen a guy upstairs about
our age. I said yes and started to describe him. I'd add one element to the
description and then my roommate would add the next element. We saw the same
figure in the same location; about 2 weeks apart.
We had friends that would come over and hang out with us.
They heard the sounds as well and one said the sound followed him home after
one of his visits. On another day, this same friend came over, but didn't knock
on the door. He told me later that he felt compelled to look up at my
apartment's upstairs window.
Standing in the window, was a dark figure. The figure was covered; head to toe
in misty blackness.
My friend ran home and didn't contact us for a week about what he'd seen.
During that week, when my roommate was home alone cooking dinner; he looked up
from the stove toward the kitchen door. He saw the same black figure blocking
him into the kitchen.
He was terrified and ran from the apartment. He went over to the friend's house
where he learned that he too had seen the black figure.
The final thing in that apartment was late one night. I had turned the lights
off downstairs in the living room and was heading upstairs to bed. Again, let
me stress that all lights were turned off in the entire apartment.
After crossing the living room and when I reached the bottom of the stairs, I noticed
a red glow reflecting off the walls. I looked back into the living room and in
the middle of the room was a young man with golden hair standing perfectly still.
He was surrounded by a red glowing light that seemed to come directly from him.
I stood mesmerized for a moment then as quickly as it started, the light and
the man was gone.
After the red light/man, we didn't hear any other strange sounds or see the
other man or black figure. All ended that night.
I have to admit that I don’t believe in ghosts or the
paranormal, but the things that happened in that apartment don’t have a logical
explanation.
